Howdja Like The Tie...I'll Be Here All This Week...Thank you...You've Been Great...
...Have You Ever Heard The One About The Commons Committee...
No wonder it's all gone goofy on Parliament Hill. It's the Prime Minister's brilliant plan:
The handbook, obtained by National Post columnist Don Martin, reportedly advises chairs on how to promote the government's agenda, select witnesses friendly to the Conservative party and coach them to give favourable testimony. It also reportedly instructs them on how to filibuster and otherwise disrupt committee proceedings and, if all else fails, how to shut committees down entirely.Please note: leaked by the National Post, the closest thing to a conservative paper outside of Alberta. Please also note folks like poster boy Andrew Coyne and independent non-posterly yet more right than me guy Jay Currie and a whack of others natural ethical conservatives of many stripes are not surprised but are appalled. The guys are nuts...yet they are also reinventing the concept of two-bit.
To review: this party came out of the Reform movement to improve democracy in Canada.
Comments
gorthos - May 19, 2007 7:53 AM
Dang.. And I thought I was going to scoop you with this story today.. So why did I even get up at 6:22, broken rib and all...
Darcey - May 19, 2007 12:23 PM
ho hum... every club has a secret manual. Wait until they find out about the babies
gorthos - May 19, 2007 1:12 PM
My club has a secret manual AND Sheep Farm/Holiday Camp
Alan - May 19, 2007 3:15 PM
Most clubs are smart enough to not write the stuff down.
portland - May 21, 2007 1:14 AM
we never had manuals. truly.
gorthos - May 23, 2007 3:36 PM
Interesting how John Baird wears a green tie when trying to be um, green.. Harpers tie implies he is all things to all people in a colourimetric political sort of war.. or it just implies he hasn't hired a "Prime Miniesterial tie Picker/Psychic" yet.
Jay Currie - May 23, 2007 11:06 PM
That is one truly ugly tie.
However, when you have a suit that badly made it is not at all a bad idea to try and distract people. Fred of Flin Flon is not your first choice in haberdashery once one reaches a certain eminence.